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For Today’s Session  Leverage what’s been learned through FIN to maximize campus efforts  Stand on the shoulders of colleagues’ work and experience to extend our knowledge  Move the wheel, not reinvent it

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Inquiry Resources facultyinquiry.net  College of Alameda  Berkeley City College  Cerritos College  East Los Angeles College  Fresno City College  Glendale Community College  Laney College  Las Positas College  Los Angeles Trade Tech College  Los Medanos College (English)  Los Medanos College (Math)  Los Medanos College & San Diego City College  Mt. San Antonio College  San Diego Mesa College  Santa Ana College  Santa Barbara City College  College of the Siskiyous  Skyline College

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Using Inquiry to Uncover Understanding of Momentum Points Focus on thorny, high-leverage questions College meaningful, personal data Be self-sufficient, systematic & collaborative Pay close attention to what surprises & confounds Enlist students to get at how students “see,” understand & experience Go public - move teaching and learning from a private concern to a public interest Take action - move from insight to practice

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Interviews & Focus Groups Las Positas College  Interviewed students about English placement process  vimeo.com/ Cerritos College  Interviewed a student to better understand how engaged he is in Math /challenging-work-and-student- engagement/

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Using Interviews & Focus Groups to Explore Momentum Points Are there tangled issues around a momentum point that Interviews or Focus Groups could loosen up for you? Who would you interview? What high leverage questions would you ask? How might you organize interview data to “look closely” at it? Keep it meaningful, manageable and sustainable

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Think-alouds & Read-alouds Laney College  Video taped a pair of ESL students working together to read a text in English  vimeo.com/ Mt. SAC Video taped students doing geology field observations vimeo.com/ Cerritos College  Video taped students solving pre-algebra word problems

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Using Think- & Read-alouds to Explore Momentum Points Are there tangled issues around a momentum point that Think-alouds or Read-alouds could loosen up for you? Who would you engage in the think- or read-aloud ? What high leverage item would you focus on? How might you organize think-aloud or read-aloud data to “look closely” at it? Keep it meaningful, manageable and sustainable

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Direct Observation LA Trade Tech College  Students shared their life stories and aspirations  vimeo.com/ Cerritos College Students used a Protocol to observe classrooms for exploring and reasoning routines DZ84oo DZ84oo wp- content/uploads/2010/10/FIN+Observ ation+Protocol-final-version-0310.pdf wp- content/uploads/2010/10/FIN+Observ ation+Protocol-final-version-0310.pdf

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Using Direct Observation to Explore Momentum Points Are there tangled issues around a momentum point that Direct Observation could loosen up for you? Who would you observe? What high leverage moments would you look for? How might you organize observation data to “look closely” at it? Keep it meaningful, manageable and sustainable

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Surveys & Assessments Skyline College  Surveyed students to understand the relationship between literacy and aspirations  vimeo.com/ College of Alameda  Surveyed students to better understand their engagement with content iry.net/the-process/survey-of- student-reading-strategies/ iry.net/the-process/survey-of- student-reading-strategies/

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Using Surveys & Assessments to Explore Momentum Points Are there tangled issues around a momentum point that Surveys or Assessments could loosen up for you? Who would you survey? What high leverage questions would you ask? How might you organize survey or assessment data to “look closely” at it? Keep it meaningful, manageable and sustainable